Some tips to help you quit smoking
Make a quit smoking plan - and stick to it.
Before you start to quit smoking, or cut down smoking, make a plan of how you are going to do it and how you are going to cope in certain situations. When you find your self in a situation that temps you to smoke it is easier to follow a planned course of action than it is to think of a way out of it on the spur of the moment.Take one day at a time.
Try not to think about quitting smoking for the rest of your life, instead just concentrate on today. It is easier to cope with one day at a time rather than looking at the rest of your life.Tell people you are quitting.
Tell as many people as possible that you are quitting smoking, friends, family, work colleagues etc. Having to tell them all that you failed is a pretty good incentive to succeed.Avoid Alcohol.
Nothing kills your will power like alcohol, so avoid it like the plague. Many people who quit smoking go back to it when they have had a drink, so try not to drink until you are sure you can handle it. Also avoid those people in pubs who do their best to persuade you to have a cigarette once they know you are trying to give up. Real friends will help and support you, not try to make you fail.Give yourself incentives and rewards.
Give yourself an incentive to get through the day without smoking, or in my case it was if I could smoke one less cigarette than I did the day before. A reward for getting through the day without smoking gives you little targets to aim at.Save your cigarette money.
Before you quit smoking, or start to cut down smoking, work out how many cigarettes you smoke per day. Then work out how much a single cigarette costs. Then put that amount of money in a jar for each cigarette you don't smoke. If you smoked 20 per day and quit completely then put the cost of 20 cigarettes in the jar. If you cut down and only smoke 15 cigarettes today, put the cost of 5 cigarettes in the jar. Watching the money mount up is a good incentive to keep going.Get rid of the temptation.
If you have, or intend to quit smoking completely in one go, get rid of your cigarettes, lighter, ashtrays etc. You should bin anything to do with smoking. The less temptation you have the more likely you are to suceed.If you intend to cut down smoking first, try doing as I did and put all your smoking "equipment" in a difficult to get to place, or at least somewhere inconvenient. In my case I put it in the bottom drawer of my bedside cabinet. I don't smoke in the bedroom, well I did once but never again, so it was inconvenient for me to get out of my comfy chair to go to the bedroom to get a cigarette and the ashtray. This helped me cut down as most of the time I would think "I'll have a smoke, but just watch the end of this programme first." This meant I smoked less cigarttes during the evening.